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Post by sepiatone on Dec 27, 2022 18:16:35 GMT
Pre-codes now are noted not only for what then were controversial topics but for what were considered "obscene" scenes not viewed in major motion pictures from 1934 until the late '60's -early '70's. Like this from a 1931 comedy short called "The Grand Dame" w/Patsy Kelly....
Or Claudette Colbert's milk bath in SIGN OF THE CROSS('32)
Sepiatone
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 27, 2022 18:28:07 GMT
...I have trouble finding pre-codes so I'm glad to see these suggestions.
Just today, he posted a review of the pre-code movie "Fast Workers." (link here) |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Dec 27, 2022 19:12:07 GMT
Thanks Fading Fast, now I have some to watch without waiting for TCM to show them when I'm awake!
That bath scene worried me to death, all those electric cords around Patsy's tub!
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Post by ando on Dec 28, 2022 18:52:18 GMT
Just wondering why this thread wasn't moved (or started  ) in the "Pre-Codes" folder. Looks so lonely with nothing in it.   The Road to Singapore (1931, Alred E. Green) Gossip, snobbery, mistrust, divorce and a mail-order engagement dominate the lives of the British upper class living in the plantation colonies of Southeast Asia.
British colonial fluff, some of it fairly represhensible, but Powell is in great form. Be interesting to know the history of British imports during this early period of Hollywood film cencorship and distribution. |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Dec 29, 2022 1:12:14 GMT
Note that The Road To Singapore is an American film made by Warner Bros. (not that it wouldn't be interesting to know the history of British imports during the pre-code era).
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 30, 2022 17:47:18 GMT
(not that it wouldn't be interesting to know the history of British imports during the pre-code era). It would be but I find it hard to nail down. Someone perhaps with better iNet moxie can do better than I could.(shouldn't be hard to find anybody like that  ) Sepiatone |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Dec 30, 2022 18:57:17 GMT
(not that it wouldn't be interesting to know the history of British imports during the pre-code era). It would be but I find it hard to nail down. Someone perhaps with better iNet moxie can do better than I could.(shouldn't be hard to find anybody like that ) Sepiatone I'm interested in what type of censorship was being done by Americans as it relates to British imports during the pre-code era, as well as how such censorship impacted British filmmakers; E.g. did British filmmakers say things like "hey, American directors are getting away with woman undressing and talking baths, lets see how far we can take scenes like that!". |
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Post by ando on Dec 30, 2022 19:07:48 GMT
Note that The Road To Singapore is an American film made by Warner Bros. (not that it wouldn't be interesting to know the history of British imports during the pre-code era). Ah yes, the whole thing was shot at Burbank. The story, though, is distinctively British, based on the play, Heatwave by Roland Pertwee, which ran for two months at the St. James Theater in London, late 1929. |
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) in the "Pre-Codes" folder. Looks so lonely with nothing in it. 
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